Are beans just slang for the individual parts of the component? Yea, after reading more about the CFC, I'm thinking that creating a 'PhotoService' cfc might be the way to go. I still need to read more about this.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Matthew Woodward <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Jason King <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'd want to create a CFC for 'photos', in which the 'photo' would be the >> object. >> > > Well honestly I'd probably start simple and just create a PhotoService.cfc > that held all the functions related to doing stuff with photos. > > >> >> Then I'd initialize the various parameters that may be involved with this >> construct.. such as name, caption, file location, date uploaded, etc >> > > You're talking beans now, which is fine, just not where I was going > initially. > > >> >> And then, I can start creating various UDF's that I want to apply against >> this object. >> > > Yeah, but again you don't *necessarily* need the bean object. Where this > started was "how do I make my UDFs available globally" and now we're off in > object modeling land. :-) Again that's fine but to start with you might > just want to abstract your functions into a service object. > > So rather than putting my original deletePhoto UDF in a folder somewhere, >> it's contained within the CFC declaration? >> > > It would be a method in the CFC that you would call as needed, yes. > > -- > Matthew Woodward > [email protected] > http://blog.mattwoodward.com > identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward > > Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, > etc. as attachments. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > -- > online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ > google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ google+ hints/tips: https://plus.google.com/115990347459711259462 http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
